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MOTUC Snake-Face Discussion Thread

I've seen many speculation threads out there and I wanted to pay heed to one of my favorite villains in the MOTU mythos with his own one.

Snake-Face was and is, my favorite of the Snake Men, bar none. I just thought his concept was awesome, having snakes erupt from his eyes, mouth, chest, etc and the appearance being so horrid it petrifies people to stone.

A male Medusa essentially.

I loved his 2002 animated appearances.

So I must ask; if the time comes, how would Mattel pul this figure off? Didn't they say there would be no action features? Would the snakes come seperate that could be inserted into the proper areas on the figure, or a seperate head?

Has me wondering.

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I am betting on two heads, and believe that it would look and work best for the purposes of teh line. The 200X version does have a great look to it, though, and I hope to see some serious influence from it in Classics.

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I was always intrigued by him, partly because he looked wicked and partly because the figure was so elusive for me. I'll be stoked if they produce him. I think a 2nd head or just properly worked attachments could work just fine, but perhaps by the time they get around to him, they'll be able to do some action features too.

The obvious answer is two heads. One could have the wild serpent hair with snake eyes and serpent tongue, the other would have slicked back hair with normal eyes and closed mouth. The body snakes could easily come out of the armor. He would be the easiest of the snakemen to do.

Well, I'm usually not a fan of action features. For instance, Ninja Force (G.I. Joe) took very articulated and versitle action figures and turned them into useless chunks that did one action, rather than any action you can think of.

MotU was always different in that respect. They didn't often bar most of the figure's action to put in another. Ram Man might be one, but the figures didn't start out as articulated as a G.I. Joe, so you weren't missing as much. So, with Ram Man, it was enjoyable because of the character; it's who he was. With Ninja Force, it ruined characters by making them do things that didn't need to be done.

So with figures like Snake Face, I understand that we won't be seeing action features, but I totally wouldn't mind it if he still had his! Snakes popping out of his body and face is just awesome. So, I'll be sad to see the feature go. From what we've seen so far, I assume we'd get two heads (snakes with without) and then many snakes to plug into the body. What I'd hope for is various snakes in different positions; straight out and striking, coiling around, wavy, etc. On top of that, it would be cool to have the snakes be interchangable; you could stick them anywhere you wanted (where ever the normal places for snakes to pop out would be).

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With the snakes popping out of his body, I don't see why they can't incorporate that action feature into his removable armor in such a way that it doesn't interfere with the articulation.

With the snakes popping out of his eyes though, two heads will probably be easier to make, but I don't see why they can't pull in a "Webstor" and create a head with snakes as inserts that may be manually pulled out individually. Yeah, that might increase the cost of tooling, but it'll still be a cool thing to have.

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Snake Face was my first Snake man as a kid. I would bet for two headed version as well. I hope he'll look more interesting as the original. Actually, Snake Face was/is a male Medusa. I would love to see a Snake Woman on the side of King Hiss.... but well. Nevermind....